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Since 1975, Congressional supervision and the climate of public opinion has narrowed the latitude with which the CIA operated. A covert operation in Iran would have been almost unthinkable in 1979. Many covert operators have resigned as well as members of the 'old guard' who oppose the policy of greater openness initiated by William Colby. Most of the evidence at present points to a CIA with clipped wings, at last under fairly adequate control and concentrating on its major task, intelligence collection. The agency should no longer be thought of as despicable even if it should be treated with healthy...
...dispensed to buy, bribe or bully the loyalty of many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence...
Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Government, called the pact that resulted after five years of negotiations, "a very substantial agreement, almost a landmark...
...Morland did not have access to any classified material, and his scientific training consists of a few college science courses. Any "secret" he "discovered" is nothing but public knowledge, available to almost anyone who cares to look...
...respectively. Mike Stenhouse brought Pearce home with a fly to short center which Jumbo Dan O'Brien caught and made a strong peg toward the plate with. Yet first baseman and brother Kevin O'Brien mysteriously cut the throw off at the mound and still made a relay that almost nabbed Pearce...